Moscow’s Troika card comes to yet another region

Moscow’s ticketing system continues its expansion as the city of Perm (more than 1 million residents) launches pilot tests of Troika card. As soon as the tests prove to be successful, the card will be available in the city as well as in the whole Perm Region (2.5 million residents).

Perm Region and SberTroika (joint venture of Sber, Moscow Government and Moscow Region Government) signed the agreement on adopting Troika card in December 2020.

«We are uniting the regions, and Perm has become part of a single ticketing system. Where the Troika card is already working, positive effects are visible: for passengers, it is, first of all, a convenient and reasonable way to pay for travel, and for the region — the development of non-cash payment in transport, increase in the transparency of the system and the growth of income accounting», — says Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport.

The Troika card has been expanding its presence in the Russian regions since November 2020, when it was launched in the Tula Region. In total, more than 25 regions expressed interest in Moscow’s ticket system. Earlier, Moscow’s Department of Transport